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Newtown Shows America The Way To Fight Gun Violence
02/04/2013 

Crime: Education officials in Newtown, Conn., site of the December school massacre that stunned the nation, have requested more armed police officers in schools — exactly the common-sense remedy IBD called for. 

Last month, in an editorial warning that the Obama administration's gun-control measures won't reduce gun violence, we noted that "sensible proposals for armed security and increased police presence at our schools are off President Obama's agenda." 

The policymakers closest to the tragedy, however — whose constituents expect them to do something effective — say increased police presence is at the top of their agenda. Last Thursday, the Newtown Board of Education formally asked the city to budget for four additional full-time police officers, placing one at each of the town's four elementary schools. 

"Our parents are demanding of us that things are made safe and secure and certain measures are put in place," the local NBC affiliate quoted board Chairwoman Debbie Leidlein. 

"So we're being very thoughtful." 

This is monumental. For sensibly calling for "qualified, armed security" at America's schools, the 4.5 million-member-strong National Rifle Association was flayed alive by the left-leaning media. 

Of the NRA's CEO Wayne LaPierre, the New York Daily News declared: 

"Vile NRA nut blames everyone and everything except the guns." 

Even the conservative New York Post called LaPierre a "Gun Nut!" 

Well, it turns out that Newtown itself — which is within the commuting orbit of New York City and New Haven, and is not somewhere you'd expect the bitter clinging to their guns and religion — thinks the NRA hit the bull's-eye. Let's see if anti-gun rights publications and politicians will be consistent and condemn the Newtown Board of Education as a puppet of the NRA. 

Don't bet your right to keep and bear arms on it. 

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